Devendra Fadnavis and Salman Khan jointly inaugurated a room named 'Gram Medical Assistance Fund' at Mantralaya in Mumbai in April 2026 to provide financial aid of up to 2.5 million INR for needy patients across all diseases.
NOT BSTOTAL BS
TOTAL BS — Verdict: False
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The Short Version
This claim is fabricated misinformation recycling a real 2016 event with false details. The Maharashtra Chief Minister's Office explicitly labeled the viral "Gram Medical Assistance Fund" claim as fake news. No credible official record, photograph, or contemporaneous report of an April 2026 inauguration exists. The actual event was a 2016 Rural Medical Aid Fund launch by Fadnavis and Salman Khan offering up to Rs. 2 lakh — not Rs. 25 lakh — making the claimed date, fund name, and aid amount all false.
Caveats
The Maharashtra CMO explicitly labeled this viral claim as fake news; the 'Gram Medical Assistance Fund' inauguration in April 2026 did not occur.
The claim recycles a real 2016 event — a Rural Medical Aid Fund launch by Fadnavis and Salman Khan at Mantralaya — but inflates the aid amount from Rs. 2 lakh to Rs. 25 lakh (2.5 million INR) and falsely dates it to April 2026.
The single PIB source appearing to support the claim is contradicted by PIB's own fact-check unit and is likely a fabricated or misattributed URL.